you're watching r t eleven pm moscow time good to have you with us things are live pictures from cairo right now tonight opposition demonstrators there apparently breach barricades near the presidential palace ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution we follow that up in just a bit but the top stories from us tonight stirring up trouble for the tax avoiders the british public fight back against the giant corporations who cream off profits instead of paying a fair share. reports say syrian rebels have seized control of a northern army base in a deadly assault while fears mount that the country's chemical weapons could fall into militant happens. to moscow says it's being framed by the west which is trying to create a perceived threat as

a pretext for intervention all the details coming out. hello there security need been stepped up as thousands of pro and anti president demonstrators gather in cairo ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution the majority of the country's judges said choose a that they won't back the controversial vote amid fears that the proposed draft would lead the country towards an islamic dictatorship journey spelled truce it is not clear whether the military supports president morsi or if it's planned referendum can even go ahead. we have beefed up security here at the presidential palace the republican guard themselves have turned up again with several tanks lined up against the walls hundreds of them monitoring the situation the defense minister of the for the c.c. a call for national dialogue tomorrow which has led many to question the position

of the military whether they are in fact backing the president or they are in fact still in the presence of the protestors site is yet to be seen really how they will react if there is even more civil unrest on the streets but we expect them see perhaps then to bring more tanks the streets if there is continued violence in the general assembly at the judges club and now wants to few hours ago that they of course would boycott this referendum on the constitution leading many to question how in fact the polling stations will be run in the past people have mentioned that the professors will step in perhaps the military this news is actually met with divination by protesters here who said that this was a good step from the judiciary showing support of the opposition really at the moment the biggest question is how these will go ahead how the referendum will be how you in fact will actually mount the polling stations well journals colors will show me believes that morsi is drafters putting the nation on the brink of civil war. as far as judges and the judicial system is concerned

this. is existing at least point you know in egypt and that's why he retreated in he's the cream because he knew that going to. court cannot actually make any judgment. point he insisted on in the. situation after that actually has not been discussed. by the people of egypt security and. after that actually what the country in a. civil war will fall invasion. and security and a state for the first time ever in the history of egypt but the country is a joke that and more than at this point we don't even know will be put in them because many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it

illegal if it happens all the full judiciary supervision is not going to. be small and if he's insisting on. this is going to be a threat to the unity of the people to their. egypt. to the people of egypt feel that. being. there's a financially frosty christmas ahead of britain with bumper taxes and welfare cuts but everyone is feeling the pinch profiteering multinationals like amazon and starbucks are managing to exploit tax laws to the fullest so the public wants payback and as artists are first reports they're telling the government it's not doing enough. people from all of the people tend not to put this conference with this company it's like starbucks and apple google at the moment it's really part of

a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way the companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like amazon they head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg's the well known tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amazon's must've this thirty cents and is based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers to their employees and many will distribute incentives like this what are in fact based here in the united kingdom

so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg up there is nothing in fact is they say at the heart of their operation and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognize as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out that's entirely legal on the face of it to run because you could register your transaction in different country and the place of great distraction is the place of taxation where as you can have it has actually taken place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flatlining economy the government would be eager to plug the holes billions of much needed tax pounds you can count on spending it in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the penalises on welfare in the government's firing

line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him and there are now that people know that him or see or doing that now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it are not paying well there's a difference between people. who voiding tax through legitimate reasons and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when you're a citizen or not i still avoiding paying where interested me again today let me actually answer the question once before you actually believe tax avoid it's ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you're saying there's

a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from surf r.t. london. excuse for a jailed human rights activist in bahrain tonight leading campaign in his prison term cut from three to two years on appeal. but there's been widespread calls for his release following his conviction in august for organizing illegal gatherings and inciting violence international pressure is mounting on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists i spoke to had a over salaries of from a bahraini m.p. and human rights activist in manama he says the sentence was reduced to appease the international rights groups. unfortunately we hear today that the reduce the three

year sentence to two years but it shows that the regime to practice revenge against roger actually maybe roger should not be behind the bob there is lots of our officials figures in this regime should be behind them are always calling for people well and brain is calling for democracy is calling for our rights reschooling all our demands to be. achieved so he is not that person should be behind the ball but unfortunately we are in the . region it seems that they don't want to say to the observers in the world not to organize a human rights organization they are not practical they reduce the. lead charge to

say we practically have a controlled work to seem to be with us any time specially that the. evident in the evidence again. coming out fears wiping over syria's chemical weapons while the west concerned the syrian government used them we assess whether the bigger problem would be if stockpiles get into extremists hands and get the story of an american woman who was forcibly sterilized as a teenager is part of a government program to build a so-called healthy nation as a couple of the many very stories just. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first.

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reports claim syrian rebels led by the islamist radical front of seize control of an army base in the country's north killing thirty five soldiers of the u.s. but the opposition movement but his place the militant group on a terrorist list and his policy or explains their increasing fears syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands some of the images coming up in this report are of a graphic nature. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that countries backing both terrorists and terrorism might themselves provide those countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria there is of course growing concern that the chemical weapons stockpiles within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been

hearing reports of both al qaida as well as hizbullah in the south operating and lending their support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land up specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be a red line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in the shift reaction and the immediate involvement of the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union are training rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons can be verified what we do know is that so your has one of the world's largest chemical

weapon also moles so it has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it is never given any kind of information in terms of the extended to and the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage it is exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and he's handling all this certainly is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos be. posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on you tube that shows that assad troops are using chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing pictures of both adults but also children with disfigured face faces as well as and incredible lose to the bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using

chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a great against the assad regime that this is just what they planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as when this share means while at the same time close aside activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves a number of prisoners now according to the information this reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a member of the hated victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating all verify exactly the truth of this although some sources say that there were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing and increasing and alarming rate. across point of the middle east there will be drawing on for you coming up america reveals

a futuristic new weapon in the fight against terror with all of this in a web site a u.s. find if i travail in the next generation of our drones fitted with a so-called death ray laser they say made a parody then you'll never run out of ammunition we're going to be on the receiving end of that starting dot com we want to find out more also talk about the real cost of education in the u.k. as well scar you rocketing prices for higher education soon they could rise to one hundred thousand. thousands of american men and women were denied the chance to have children on government orders it was a decades long program of in forced sterilization of those thought unfit to be parents is more important some of the victims now being considered for compensation but they say to her it's too little too late you won't want to see eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future i said why

don't i have that to the hospital i'm not saying. rocks was with two other girls when a social worker picked her up she said we're gonna take you pin. down there and they did surgery and they know what he was doing to me eugenics is a pseudo science aimed at improving the so-called quality of the population by forcibly preventing reproduction by people thought by some to be inferior in america it targeted mostly young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the phone and. she says well. now you know why don't you won't have no bread they. said what a way to make it one day you mean she said you won't move ahead.

and that's when i want they handed to me this is. the grand bronx went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilization. or the way she will marry somebody should be accountable for this day that anything. they should base. probably one of the most infamous abuses of this theory was the radical purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to be the first state to

compensate living victims like brooks with a payout of up to fifty thousand dollars they were kind of with us except they were born this kind of genius they. can do better than this. shane. to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffering in june north carolina state senate rejected proposals to allocate funding for the compensation program some argue that paying victims for what was a legal program could lead to subsequent payouts tied to america's other historic atrocities such as slavery seven decades ago this building served as baker senatorial it's where state officials took virginia brooks and dozens of other young girls to undergo mandatory sterilization surgery today it serves as an

apartment complex where families are living routine lives this as others still bear deep scars over how their lives were forever changed here they had a baby and a kid of the people. why be like. a life changing question that u.s. state officials refused to answer for marina point nine archly north carolina. now some other world news opposition activists in bangladesh couple of days ago made one of the force of your day long general strike police in to forcibly disperse protesters and smash vehicles and hold rocks the unrest a ruptured after accusations of government sponsored killings during recent protests against unpopular political from. north korea's state is long range rocket off the launch pad the apparent move to fix a technical problem called young maintains it will be launched by the end of the month the secluded state insists it's sending a satellite into orbit but many countries believe it's conducting

a ballistic missile test north korea is banned from using such weapons technology under u.n. sanctions japan is says it's giving up patrick anti missile system deployed to shoot down that rocket if it does get in the air and goes off course. u.k. based bank h.s.b.c. has agreed to pay a huge fine to the u.s. department justice for lapses in money laundering regulations the lax controls and poor policing of suspicious transactions left the u.s. banking industry exposed to mexican drug cartels was also accused of violating sanctions on iran finally two billion dollars is the largest ever of its kind of becomes is pretty standard chartered bank also agreed to pay a second fine for similar charges you're just minutes away from the station the kaiser report picking through the financial headlines for expose what the world's banks are really up to we tell you about it on this channel this is from moscow.

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hi i'm max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report double double toil and trouble fire burn in college and bubble yes people the three witches of wall street lloyd jamie and sammy have spoken they say that into their cauldron of perpetual bubble will forever go your toil and trouble and that your economies and your wealth will burn in the fire up there which is dead. stating. yes max believe it or not after years of zero percent interest rates just as we

predicted world the risks fresh credit bubble switzerland's be i asked asset prices across the world have risen to the heady levels not seen since the credit boom five years ago and maybe losing touch with economic reality yet again the bank for international settlements is war and that's exactly what i had as my top story i'm love one more thinking like exactly the same run the same brain week yeah i took this out of the paper today this is exactly what we've been talking about the assets in question of course would be sovereign bonds for example that are trading at three hundred year highs in the u.k. are two hundred forty year highs in america and the b. yes which warned before the collapse of two thousand and eight that assets were a bubble warning again so people say you know all those zero percent interest rates didn't produce any inflation so says paul krugman and yet the inflation is on the

balance sheet of the central banks that have been buying government bonds to create the illusion of economic growth and now we're headed for and massive. collapse the biggest collapse in history bigger than the tulip bulb collapse bigger than the south sea bubble collapse bigger than the mississippi company collapse bigger than the nasdaq or nikkei collapse the biggest the mother of all collapses. and they also point out that investors are not being rewarded for their risk they're taking so they don't seem to understand how much risk they're taking for example yields on mortgage bonds have fallen to the lowest level ever recorded spread some corporate debt have narrowed to the way for thin margins of two thousand and seven even though default rates are currently three times higher than they were then for junk bonds and twice as high for investment grade companies but this is the genius of this particular central.